Sameer Karanjekar
Stockholm
Summary
Dynamic Scrum Master with expertise in Agile methodologies, sprint planning, and stakeholder management. Proven ability to facilitate teams and enhance communication to drive project success.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
Stockholm
01.2017 - Current
- Facilitated daily stand-up meetings to enhance team communication and collaboration.
- Coordinated sprint planning sessions to prioritize backlog items effectively.
- Supported product owner in refining user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Led retrospectives to identify process improvements and enhance team performance.
- Monitored project progress using Agile tools to ensure adherence to timelines.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to resolve blockers and improve workflows.
- Provided coaching on Agile methodologies to promote best practices among team members.
- Managed stakeholder expectations by communicating project updates and changes effectively.
- Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
- Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
- Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
- Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
- Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
- Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
- Conducted demos of completed work at the end of each sprint cycle.
- Identified risks associated with sprint goals and worked with the team to mitigate them.
Quality Assurance Software Tester
Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai
11.2014 - 12.2016
- Developed test plans and test cases for various software applications.
- Executed manual and automated testing procedures to ensure software quality.
- Collaborated with developers to identify and resolve defects quickly.
- Conducted regression testing for software updates and new features.
- Participated in Agile ceremonies to enhance team collaboration and efficiency.
- Documented test results and reported issues to project stakeholders effectively.
- Reviewed requirements and specifications to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Reviewed software requirements, test plans and test cases for completeness and accuracy.
- Executed manual tests to identify defects in the application under test.
- Performed functional, integration, system, smoke, compatibility and stress testing.
- Reported defects using bug tracking tools such as JIRA.
- Analyzed system specifications to develop effective test strategies and scenarios.
R&D Test Engineer
Metso Automation
Mumbai, Tampere
11.2011 - 10.2014
- Developed and executed test plans for automation systems.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance product quality.
- Analyzed test results and documented findings for review.
- Ensured compliance with industry standards and safety regulations.
- Utilized advanced testing tools to validate system performance.
- Improved testing processes through continuous feedback and innovation.
- Collaborated with development teams to identify root causes of bugs and resolve issues quickly.
- Carried out functional, performance, regression, integration and user acceptance testing activities.
- Provided technical support throughout the entire product lifecycle by troubleshooting any issues encountered during testing phases.
- Developed and implemented test plans for new products to ensure the highest quality standards.
Senior Test Engineer
Lear Automative
Mumbai
09.2008 - 10.2011
- Developed automated testing scripts to enhance testing processes.
- Reviewed test documentation for accuracy and completeness regularly.
- Evaluated existing test suites regularly and made necessary modifications or additions when needed.
- Conducted reviews of test cases with stakeholders to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Analyzed requirements documents to ensure proper coverage of testing activities.
- Conducted manual and automated tests in alignment with specifications and regulations and reported results.
- Performed regression tests for each build in order to check defect resolutions and overall software performance.
- Investigated bugs, reproducing defects and documenting issues in database.
- Participated in design reviews with developers to ensure quality standards are met throughout development lifecycle.
- Created test data for validating scenarios based on functional requirements.
- Wrote and updated manual test cases for team use, maintaining optimal organization for maximum productivity.
- Created and optimized automated testing tools for repetitive tasks.
Embedded Systems Engineer
Suman Electronics
Mumbai
01.2002 - 08.2008
- Tested functionality, performance and compliance of each product against design specifications to maintain strong development standards and high customer satisfaction.
- Wrote and updated manual test cases for team use, maintaining optimal organization for maximum productivity.
- Verified fixes by rerunning failed tests after defect resolution.
- Maintained traceability between test cases and requirements and defects reported.
- Assisted in developing training materials for new users of the software application.
- Documented results of all tests conducted according to established standards.
- Participated in post-release validation activities such as bug verification.
- Collaborated with developers to identify root causes of defects.
Education
Post-Graduate Certificate in Business Management - Project Management
Welingkar Institute of Management
06-2018
Batchelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Gangamai College of Engineering
Dhule05-2001
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Sprint planning
- Backlog management
- User story refinement
- Risk identification
- Software testing
- Test case development
- Effective communication
- Stakeholder management
- Team facilitation
- Software development lifecycle
Timeline
Scrum Master
01.2017 - Current
Quality Assurance Software Tester
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2014 - 12.2016
R&D Test Engineer
Metso Automation
11.2011 - 10.2014
Senior Test Engineer
Lear Automative
09.2008 - 10.2011
Embedded Systems Engineer
Suman Electronics
01.2002 - 08.2008
Post-Graduate Certificate in Business Management - Project Management
Welingkar Institute of Management
Batchelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Gangamai College of Engineering